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Recap

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:10:52 -0500

Bochum, Germany, 28.10.2009

Aalborg, Denmark, 3.11.2009

Gerry Badger: The Art That Hides Itself - Notes on Photography's Quiet Genius

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:25:00 -0400

"[...] More often than not, a direct, 'simple' record of the subject in hand - the way of the 'quiet' photographer - produces a result that is more profoundly fresh than any attempt at visual novelty made by utilizing the many tricks of the trade. If photography deals directly and honesty with life, it has every chance to be fresh and 'new', for the surface of life itself is infinitely variable, renewable and renewing. [...] The concreteness of photography, its awkward specificity, *must* surely be its glory, for can we ever tire of looking at a tree, the sky, a human face?
[...]'Thereness' is a sense of the subject's reality, a heightened sense of its physicality, etched sharply into the image. It is a sense that we are looking at the world directly, without mediation. Or rather, that something other than a mere photographer is mediating. [...] Such a feeling, such alertness, when present in the photograph, can of course conceal the greatest photographic art. 'Thereness' is seen at the opposite ends of the photographic spectra, in the humblest holiday enprint as much as the most serious art photograph, in the snapshot-inspired, dynamic small camera candid as much as the calm, meditative, large camera view. Those photographs which conjure up a compelling desire to touch the subject, to walk into the picture, to know the photographed person, display 'thereness'. Those photographs which tend towards impressionism, expressionism or abstraction can be in danger of losing it, or never finding it [...]. 'Thereness', in short, is a quality that has everything to do with reality and little to do with art, yet is, I would reiterate, the essence of the art of photography"

Klavdij Sluban

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:54:00 -0400

Klavdij Sluban:

from Paradise Lost

a few realtime gfx clock thingies. file under #vvvv

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:07:10 -0400

16:15:29:0143

16:12:52

16:11:49

Lyngså Strand, Denmark, 29.09.09, 12:51

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:13:45 -0400

Joel Meyerowitz

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:09:12 -0400

"[...] Photography is a mute medium, but if you look at picture after picture you begin to know something about a place, but you also begin to know about the person who made it. [...]"

Aalborg, Denmark, 20.09.09, 19:46

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:01:00 -0400

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Sun, 20 Sep 2009 08:34:00 -0400

drawing ≠ cycling

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:24:00 -0400

Also...

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:34:48 -0400

gatefold outside

gatefold inside with dvd attached

label vinyl

Live Visuals for 'Kiloton - Language Lost'

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:33:00 -0400

click to play

This losely relates to sentimentality. Finally.

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:24:14 -0400

clothes: ✔
printer: ✔
big knot of cables, cameras, chargers & adapters: ✔
the western and the electric guitar: ✔
a first batch of comics & ‘Broken Line’: ✔
the small cabinet: ✔
nerd’s toys to be scattered over a desk: ✔
the dollarbill I earned at age 9: ✔
a picture of her: ✔
desk & computer:

Yes, I'm doing it, with a heavy heart:

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:25:58 -0400

A big pruning of my photostream at flickr. Feels like cleaning house after a year of not doing so, well almost two years exactly. What a mess of actually (every so often) quite likable photographs, cropped to squares, framed and shadowed for reasons that are beyond my grasp by now. Not to mention the blatant inconsistency in everything postprocessing. My dear god. But it somehow hurts a little to delete pictures that people liked and faved. And that I liked and still do. Sorry for that, you people, should you miss them.

(Aalborg Zoo, August 12th, 2007)

A theory, conceived in a slighty drunken state

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:21:00 -0400

If Photography was Painting, the most prolific and famous blogs and magazines on the topic would write endless reviews about brushes, pigments and canvasses. You would be polled “What’s your favourite palette knife?” There’d be tutorials on how to set up your easel. Or how to draw a circle.
There would be no single mention of Rothko, Pollock, Picasso, Feininger, Warhol, Klee, Kandinsky, Marc, van Gogh etc. - just maybe, people would point you to the body of work of Rembrandt every once in a while. Instead, becoming a “Certified Bob Ross Instructor” would be the holy grail, the one thing to strive for.

(file under: thoughts about mainstream)

Something about skies.

Wed, 27 May 2009 15:33:51 -0400

Bochum, Germany, 23.05.09, 16:27

Sun, 24 May 2009 09:04:00 -0400

27th of May: interesting how much this picture sticks out. I’m very much tempted to make a b/w conversion :)

inbflat.net

Mon, 18 May 2009 16:50:49 -0400

inbflat.net

Bochum, Germany, 16.05.09, 15:56

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:41:55 -0400

Bochum, Germany, 16.05.09, 14:31

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:37:00 -0400

So I made this walk yesterday...

Sun, 17 May 2009 17:32:00 -0400

…equipped with my camera, something that I have not done for quite some time, and ended up on city’s Central Cemetery. Which, architecturally, is a bit… awkward. Like, just add some black german vintage cars and voilà - there’s your set for a movie containing nazis. Probably tomorrow I will update this ~~or make another post~~ with some sort of slideshow…
However, what struck me during my exploration of said cemetery was a sign on a pole, stuck into the the grave of Hilde Rudolff. I don’t know who Hilde Rudolff was. As it appears, a few people did. The only inscription on the gravestone was “1913 - 1988”. This is a picture of the sign:

More precisely, this is a picture of the sign after I had relocated it. The text reads: “This family grave is scruffy. In accordance to the cemetery rules, the rights of use may be revoked for graves that are not maintained. Hereby, the holder of rights of use is requested to maintain the grave. The Chief Municipal Director”.